Saturday, February 17, 2018

Powerful Quake Shakes Mexico City

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

The Ring of Fire continues to shake.  After a flurry of earthquakes in a number of locations along the Pacific Ring of Fire, including swarms in California, and recently in the western Pacific, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake slammed southern and central Mexico on Friday; only five months after a deadly earthquake hit Mexico City's region with fierce force.

The September 19, 2017 earthquake caused 228 deaths in Mexico City, and 141 more in surrounding areas.  Some of the structural damage from that earthquake remains to be repaired.

The major earthquake was followed by a magnitude 5.8 aftershock about an hour later.

The earthquake is being labeled as a separate event from a September 7 earthquake that registered magnitude of 8.2, and the September 19 event.

The September 7 earth quake killed nearly 100 people, and was centered about 273 miles southwest of the latest event.

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